Letter: God's eternal law is larger than the papacy

What wanton palaver that Pope Benedict has been a "non-progressive" and upon his resignation the Catholic Church will have a chance to accept modern ideas! What are these modem secular ideas that have earned him the neanderthal tag? His accusers point to his stands against sexual immorality, abortion, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research.

What secular city doesn't compute is that whether Benedict XVI or even Judas I is occupying the chair of Peter, the natural moral order cannot change. The pope is not God, and God alone has made that order.

So, all you wise and learned prognosticators, do not hold your collective breath hoping for a new pope who will toe the secular line. Any validly elected Pope will still call good, good; and evil, evil.